Computing Fellows Program: Increasing Meaningful Computing Engagement Across Disciplines

该项目旨在为国家利益服务，通过提供计算奖学金来增加跨学科有意义的计算参与的机会。女性和代表性不足的群体在计算领域的低参与率对计算劳动力的多样性和稳健性产生了负面影响。这一问题也降低了其他学科的技术创新水平。为了解决这个问题，该项目将建立计算奖学金并研究其有效性。该项目的研究员将与科学，人文和艺术课程的学生和教师合作，将计算机活动纳入课堂并支持学生学习。该项目旨在降低进入计算机行业的门槛，同时提高学生的信心和兴趣。这个项目有潜力提高所有领域学生的计算能力、兴趣和自我效能，吸引更多的女性进入计算领域，并增加计算劳动力的多样性。该项目将采用和调整基于证据的同伴和近同伴学习，以促进自我效能感、归属感和学生参与学习。该项目将包括严格的研究，以建立概念的证明和持续改进的评估。在入门课程中，同伴和近同伴的指导以及参与计算的经验已经被证明对计算机领域的女性招聘、参与和保留有积极的影响。在拟议的计算奖学金项目中，pi将使用混合研究方法来增加对这些循证实践有效性的理解。该项目的结果将通过计算机期刊和学术会议的出版物进行传播。该项目有可能成为一个全国性的模式，可以指导其他有兴趣创建类似计算奖学金的机构。NSF IUSE: EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by providing computing fellowships to increase opportunities for meaningful computing engagement across all disciplines. The low rate of participation of women and underrepresented groups in computing negatively impacts the diversity and robustness of the computing workforce. This issue also lowers the level of technical innovation in other disciplines. In order to address this issue, the project will develop computing fellowships and study their effectiveness. The Fellows in this project will work with students and faculty in courses of science, humanities, and the arts to incorporate computing activities in classes and support student learning. The project aims to lower the barrier of entry to computing while raising student confidence and interest. This project has the potential to raise the computing abilities, interest, and self-efficacy of students in all fields, to attract more women to computing, and to increase diversity to the computing workforce. The project will adopt and adapt an evidence-based peer and near-peer learning to promote self-efficacy, a sense of belonging, and engaged student learning. The project will include rigorous research to establish proof of concept and evaluation for continuous improvement. Peer and near-peer mentoring and engaging computing experiences in introductory courses have been shown to have a positive impact on the recruitment, engagement, and retention of women in computing. The PIs will use a mixed research method to increase the understanding of the effectiveness of these evidence-based practices in the proposed computing fellowship project. The project results will be disseminated through publications in journals and academic conferences of computing. The project has the potential to be a national model that can guide other institutions interested in creating similar computing fellowships. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.